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Andy Francis is an A/V nerd at heart who has spent the last 15+ years sending audio and video over the internet. He has extensive experience working with everything from video conferencing to live event streaming to large-scale OTT platforms and is passionate about spreading knowledge and access to streaming technologies.
For the past few years, AI has been one of the top buzzwords at the NAB Show. While other hot topics like “web3” seem to have peaked and faded, interest in video AI has continued to grow and this year there were more practical solutions being showcased than ever before. A personal highlight for Bitmovin…
AI has been the hot buzz word in tech the past couple of years and we’re starting to see more and more practical applications for video emerging from the hype, like automatic closed-captioning and language translation, automated descriptions and summaries, and AI video Super Resolution upscaling. Bitmovin has especially focused on how AI can…
Globo’s content and reach When it comes to content scale and audience reach, Globo is on par with Hollywood and the big US broadcasters with over 3,000 hours of entertainment content being produced each year. The viewership numbers are equally impressive with forty-nine million Brazilians watching the daily, one-hour newscast and Globo’s Digital Hub attracting…
NVIDIA GTC Video Streaming Workflow Highlights NVIDIA GTC (GPU-Technology Conference) is an annual conference with training and exhibition for all aspects of GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated computing. GTC 2024 was held in March with the tagline “The Conference for the Era of AI” and as expected, generative AI was a huge focus this year. There…
Encoding a feature-length film used to take hours, sometimes days. Split-and-stitch encoding changed all of that. By breaking a video file into smaller chunks, encoding them simultaneously across parallel cloud compute resources, and reassembling the final output, Bitmovin’s VOD Encoder can achieve speeds of over 92x real-time, and was the first in the industry to reach 100x.
Video analytics data is only valuable if you can act on it, and that’s easier said than done when you’re sifting through bitrate logs, error events, and ABR switches for thousands of sessions. Bitmovin’s Analytics AI Session Interpreter was designed to solve exactly that. Built during an internal hackathon and powered by Google’s Vertex AI, it automatically reads session data, identifies what went wrong, explains why it matters for the viewer experience, and tells you what to do about it.
The post will explain how Per-Title Encoding works and the advantages of using Per-Title Encoding compared to using the same bitrate ladder for all your content. Per-Title often requires fewer ABR ladder renditions and lower bitrates that translate into storage, egress and CDN cost savings. It also improves QoE with less buffering and quality…
Bitmovin was founded on research and that commitment to innovation never stopped. This post spotlights the ATHENA Lab, a joint research program between Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt, as its first cohort of PhD students completed their dissertations. Covering four major projects across edge computing, machine learning-based video encoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, and multi-access edge computing, the research tackles some of the streaming industry’s hardest problems.
Introduction This post will provide some background information on video codecs and the pros and cons of the most common codecs used by streaming services. We’ll discuss why you should be taking advantage of newer codecs and the many benefits they can provide. Finally, we’ll provide a step-by-step guide through the factors and questions you…
Bringing Industry-leading Turnaround Times to Short Form Content Bitmovin has recently seen an increase in demand for processing short form video content and faster turnaround times. This post will cover the most common use cases for short form video and how our new GPU acceleration for VOD encoding will benefit and add value for those…
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